Definition of INCARCERATION

incarceration

Meanings

Plural: incarcerations

Noun

  • the state of being imprisoned
    • "his ignominious incarceration in the local jail"
  • The act of confining, or the state of being confined; imprisonment.
  • A strangulation, as in a hernia.
  • A constriction of the hernial sac, rendering it irreducible, but not great enough to cause strangulation.

Origin / Etymology

From Medieval Latin incarcerātiō.

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